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by pronik 4y ago
Seconded. I've recreated a corporate CI with it and had a great time. To have a single compile target is a blessing. Also: the only software I know of written in Mercury.
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by pronik 4y ago
I've bought an OKI color laser print/scan/copy combo after we last moved some four years ago. Best thing ever in general and I never had any connection problems. But yeah, the mere fact that you have to be choosing your hardw
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by pronik 4y ago
I'm honestly baffled every time I hear about people in the US spending their time literally paying bills. Direct debiting works and has worked for decades in Germany, and also across Europe since SEPA. Same goes for savings and transfe
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by pronik 4y ago
The same goes for contacts by the way: you can be as careful as you wish keeping your phone number and address and e-mail address private, as long as you are friends with me and I keep my Google Contacts up to date, Google has that data. An
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by pronik 4y ago
DevOps is an education and communication position. You won't get the devs to do ops, since they are good at development and don't know much about ops and the same applies to ops in reverse. You need people (ideally, on each produc
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by pronik 4y ago
I'd argue that without SRE you won't be delivering any software to the customer.
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by pronik 4y ago
> What is a "thing" in this example? Is it an instance of a service? A database? Something else? No, you just run three of everything. While only databases and similarly distributed data storages really need exactly three (or s
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by pronik 4y ago
You'll find yourself in the world of pain the next time you need to remove something. Over time, your playbook will be full with stuff that shouldn't be on the machines. At some point you'll consider re-installing the machi
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by pronik 4y ago
I think the best bet is to just acknowledge, no need to smalltalk. Just smile and say "good morning" or even just nod at them when you run by, no matter who that is, CEO or the janitor. That will be enough for a people yearning to
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by pronik 4y ago
No, because GSV is at least a decade old in Germany, since the whole "pixelate my building" has understandably been too much of a hassle for Google to push any picture updates.
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by pronik 4y ago
Don't give them ideas. The one thing I don't need right now is Microsoft killing Linux compatibility in Teams.
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by pronik 4y ago
Slack has been great for my company for about seven years now. There is a feeling that the development stalled a couple of years ago, probably due to Salesforce, Teams' market sweep and struggling to keep up with Discord's feature
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by pronik 4y ago
Anyone still remember Steve Yegge's platforms rant? One particular point from it has stuck with me, because it's so obviously correct and so obviously difficult to implement in small scale: "Monitoring and QA are the same thi
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by pronik 4y ago
True, however, the users have been liable too. If my company gets sued because I used Copilot, it won't matter that much that the plaintiff also sued GitHub/Microsoft.
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by pronik 4y ago
You are responsible for your tool use. That's the same discussion as with whether uTorrent is responsible for your torrenting copyrighted stuff or with Tesla's auto-pilot. You buy the tool, you are responsible for what you create
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by pronik 4y ago
The key assumption with this redesign is basically the same as with the old one: we are supposed to immediately understand what this icon is supposed to mean. However, what will our assumptions about things be in about 50 years, which is ho
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by pronik 4y ago
French is actually not so weird if you think about what a "score" is in English. Gettysburg address literally begins with "four score and seven years ago", which equals to 87.
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by pronik 4y ago
Somehow, it seems so backwards. We make our repositories more accessible for automated tools and less accessible for people and instead of investing coding time into better tools, we invest it into local workarounds at every single develope
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by pronik 4y ago
Because most people continued to use VSCode and didn't notice. Other LSP users' communities noticed, but were too small to make a vocal impact.
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by pronik 4y ago
I have a somewhat similar gripe about apps, which has some recent implications: there seems to be some school of thought for engagement, which suggests that something that's not used at least weekly is useless. For this reason Google s
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by pronik 4y ago
A long time ago, when I have been downloading the latest share- or freeware from Tucows, I've established a pretty good-working metric for when a software has jumped the shark for me personally. It was when a major release's bigge
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by pronik 4y ago
In other news, how many things do we want to name Fig? I remember something for docker used to be called fig (compose?) and several others.
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by pronik 5y ago
Slightly offtopic, but anyone who is grieving the loss of adventure games and hasn't played games by Daedelic Entertainment (Deponia series, Whispered World), is seriously missing out. Too bad Daedelic does not do those games anymore e
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by pronik 5y ago
If the IDs are monotonous, it doesn't matter.
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by pronik 5y ago
Anecdata: Once upon a time I installed a SuSE with their default choice of ReiserFS (v3) as root partition. Couple of months later that filesystem was dead beyond repair. I don't know whether I did something wrong, but I've been v
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by pronik 5y ago
I probably have no problem paying for the service (gotta become a customer after being a product for 15 years). However, the service needs to start being on par with the regular Google account offering. Most of current users me included hav
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by pronik 5y ago
> web1 was decentralized, web2 centralized everything into platforms Am I the only one who remembers Web 1.0 as "publisher-generated content" and Web 2.0 as "user-generated content"? (publisher being the one who hosts
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by pronik 5y ago
I'm with Inoreader and have never been happier. They integrate what they can, which means public Twitter and Facebook feeds, Telegram channels and also plain web pages with either text or image-based tracking in addition to all the &qu
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by pronik 5y ago
Assume you are wrong until proven otherwise. There are really quite a lot of constraints you are at most times not qualified to reason about. Small example: I was working on implementing accessibility for a government website and was rather
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by pronik 5y ago
One thing I've been thinking about lately is the lasting change to the society. I would like to argue that the point of no return has passed a long time ago. A sizeable chunk of people I talk with aren't going back to the office (

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